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ELEMENTARY MORALITY by QUENEAU RAYMOND
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Category: Poetry
Raymond Queneau (1903-76) was born at Le Havre in 1903, where he was educated before studying at the Sorbonne in Paris. Between 1924 and 1929 Queneau was active in the surrealist movement and composed its manifesto, "Permettez!". Queneau collaborated with a number of Nouvelle Vague film directors, most ...Show more
Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau
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Category: Books, Writing and Language
On a crowded bus at midday, the narrator observes one man accusing another of jostling him deliberately. When a seat is vacated, the first man takes it. Later, in another part of town, the man is spotted again, while being advised by a friend to have another button sewn onto his overcoat. Exercises in S ...Show more
The Flight of Icarus by Raymond Queneau; Barbara Wright (Translator)
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Category: Books, Writing and Language
In late-nineteenth-century Paris, the writer Hubert is shocked to discover that Icarus, the protagonist of the new novel he's working on, has vanished. Looking for him among the manuscripts of his rivals does not solve the mystery, so a detective is hired to find the runaway character, who is now in Mon ...Show more
The Sunday of Life by Raymond Queneau; Barbara Wright (Translator)
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Category: Books, Writing and Language
When shop-owner Julia Segovia decides that she's going to marry the handsome if exceedingly young and naive soldier Valentin Brû, he willingly goes along with her scheme. Little does he know that he will have to contend with disgruntled in-laws, eccentric locals, a cunning wife, a shifty career in fortu ...Show more
We Always Treat Women Too Well by Raymond Queneau; Barbara Wright (Translator)
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Category: Books, Writing and Language
Published originally as the purported French translation of a novel by fictional Irish writer Sally Mara, We Always Treat Women Too Well is set in Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising and tells the story of the siege of a small post office by a group of rebels, who discover to their embarrassment that a ...Show more
Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau
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Category: Penguin Classics
The cult classic from one of France's most stylish writersImpish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with her uncle Gabriel. All she really wants to do is ride the metro, but finding it shut because of a strike, Zazie looks for other means of amusement and is soon caught up in ...Show more
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